About 89% of people -- 43.5 million -- will travel by car, while 3.7 million will fly. Another 1.4 million will choose cruises, trains and buses.

Not everyone will be heading to Grandma's house, either. Las Vegas, which, with its glitz, retina-burning neon signs and mass chicanery, is clearly the type of locale the Pilgrims envisioned living in during that frigid first Thanksgiving, is the most popular city for those getting away.